The Lilacs Old Hall Lane Fornham St Martin Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1SS
Proposal
TPO 175a (1993) Tree Preservation Order - 1no. Horse chestnut ( x on plan T9 on order) crown raise to 3 metres above ground level, pruning secondary limb structures only
- Received
- 26 August 2020
- Decided
- 4 November 2020 · Approve application
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- The Fornhams And Great Barton
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- ReceivedReceived26 Aug
- ValidatedValidated7 Sep
- Consult.Consultation28 Sep
- TargetTarget Date2 Nov
- DecidedDecided4 Nov
Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)
This is a tree application at The Lilacs Old Hall Lane Fornham St Martin Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 1SS. West Suffolk has handled 1,373 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 41 days. This one was decided in 70 days, 4 weeks longer than West Suffolk's median. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across The Fornhams And Great Barton. We hold 1,698 applications in total for the IP31 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
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- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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